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Dwight Eisenhower posted:But then he wouldn't be a beautiful and unique snowflake who stands out with his brilliant characterization! Zhang and Annette get married in the end of Progeny and their son is the next leader of the XCOM Project
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Slashrat posted:Think bigger. Mecherials. Think bigger. Mech"that-weird-giant-alien-from-the-box-of-the-original-1994-game"  Actually, it looked to be a mech already!
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Brainamp posted:It would be awful, except he is entertaining, explains his ideas clearly, and doesn't idle for any length of time without good reason. It's actually very, very interesting to watch him agonize over different approaches and trying to find the optimal course of action when faced with a terrible situation. I learned a LOT from those moments. A LOT.
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Darkrenown posted:Fire scares Chryssalids: Oh c'mon. Man, I'm starting to have to agree with the folks that say that Chryssalids are way too nerfed in this game in comparison to the original.
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agauntpanda posted:Boy am I glad we moved Portent (Progeny mission 1) to month 2 (from month 1). Guys, are you so excited about the expansion that you didn't even notice that Ananda Gupta posted this a while ago? Or did you all just choose to ignore the man on purpose?
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Nov 13, 2013 21:53
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GaistHeidegger posted:His Will is tragically low now--he's been in the hospital bed repeatedly, he's been through gene therapy multiple times and has been pulverized by muton berserkers, cyberdisc grenades and mechtoid barages and lived to tell about it. At this point, he's the best pointman I can field--but he's become a huge liability in missions with multiple sectoid commanders (just about every UFO landing now) or forthcoming ethereals. He may have to sit out the temple mission... Please post a picture of Mad Dog. I really loved his story.
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GaistHeidegger posted:I had him swap to a close-faced helmet after his trip to the critical-wound ER when he planted himself between a muton berserker and 'Prophet' in a jam. Man, a soldier like Mad Dog should never wear a helmet, dude!
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Nov 22, 2013 22:44
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GaistHeidegger posted:
Super boss. I imagine the Commander considering retiring Mad Dog: "Mad Dog, you have served the planet with valor and honor. Now I think it's time to..." "Don't do that, Commander. The nightmares will be there either way. At least with the XCOM I can shoot back."
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Jesus Christ, are Thin Men bugged? I haven't seen them miss a shot ONCE. Every shot they take connects. Every single one. Yesterday a Thin Man shot against one of my soldiers who was in half cover... but BEHIND A WALL. There was no line of sight between him and a Thin Men, none whatsoever. Well, like THAT's gonna stop the motherfucker: he shot at my soldier ANYWAY. His plasma fire destroyed the wall and killed my soldier! What the hell is going on?!
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Do you have Aiming Angles enabled? Nope!
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HOLY poo poo, did Mad Dog run INTO A RIFT so he could blast the Uber Ethereal with his shotgun??   Fantastic, dude. drat that was a satisfying thing to see! Thanks for the update!
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Foxhound posted:And one last thing, I got EU and EW but no other DLC, is it worth it to get the other stuff or will I overload on special missions? Get it because it has ***hats***, disable Slingshot before you start. Black friday is coming.
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quiggy stardust posted:Eh, Slingshot isn't so bad and you get a guaranteed Heavy and a treasure trove of stuff. Well, except Confounding Light. gently caress Confounding Light. It does have the best hats, though. I have way too much fun with hats. Also, yesterday I fielded my first Covert Operative. It was just such a waterfall of happy feelings to absolutely ruin EXALT's poo poo, man! I got that mission where you have to hack 2 computers and then get the hell out. Once my spy was safe, Bradford gave me the option to evac as well or stick around and just murder everyone. Of COURSE my soldiers stayed. Seriously, I can't wait to murder more of these traitors, it was almost better than killing Thin Men.
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Darkrenown posted:Exalt are even more into mutants than Xcom is. Don't let Dr. Vahlen read that.
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ShineDog posted:With the current, excellent, chunky art style with the larger than life guns they look much like action figures already. Posting just to agree with this. drat, I love XCOM's art style. I think this is one of the biggest hits of the remake. Even the XCOM shield, "Vigilo Confido" is awesome. And by the way, is it just me or is the clothing of the undercover agents just super cool?
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treat posted:I never actually finished the base game campaign. Does Enemy Within change the entire end-game or does it just add its own thing? Basically, is there any reason to play the original Enemy Unknown without the Enemy Within or Slingshot DLC? Maybe if you think the overall theme of the expansion is bullshit or if you're looking for a simpler game. But EW does not change the end-game and storywise it just adds a few elements but isn't disruptive of the main narrative at all. It's mostly gameplay enhancements (new missions, Exalt, Meld etc) and tweaks to make the game more balanced (longer research times, soldiers level up more slowly etc). I really loathe the Slingshot DLC though, so I'd say keep the hats and disable the missions. But it's a personal preference. But really, I hate Zhang so much I wish he was a real person so I could actually murder him.
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Doctor Reynolds posted:Why do you hate him? He's pretty drat handy. I mean, I guess his codename is a little goofy... XCOM is a game I really love, right? I loved the original game to death and I really like this remake. To make this really short because I've explained my hatred here before, Zhang is an insult to the philosophy of XCOM. He is, in a way, the AntiXCOM. In a game where we find a special kind of beauty in building narratives for our cherished soldiers, Zhang comes and insults all your troopers by being better than them, but with a predefined narrative. Remember that Heavy that saved your soldiers with his rockets numerous times and that more than once performed acts of heroism in the field to save his partners? Yeah, gently caress him, Zhang has better stats than him. In a game where the aliens are a serious and terrible threat and XCOM is Earth's last hope, Zhang shoots a Sectoid in the head like he's putting a sick dog out of his misery and throws the gun away like it's nothing. In one single move he spits in the face of all parties involved: XCOM and aliens alike. gently caress Zhang.
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Brainamp posted:You can turn off Slingshot/ditch him after the first mission. I turn it off. Bought it on sale for the hats!
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Hand Row posted:There are transmitters on the map which scramble their communications. This somehow causes them to not be able to shoot. It is really unnecessary. Not only unnecessary, but also pretty silly. I'd love to see Exalt get AI tweaks. It'd be cool if they fought with lots of tricks like grappling hooks and stun grenades, but without being super foolish like they are.
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jng2058 posted:I've heard rumors, mostly inferences from what Gupta said in a few interviews, that if EW proves successful they may have plans to do another EW style expansion pack. The Brave New World to EW's Gods & Kings, if you will. There were hints that it might include more to do on the Geoscape, but there's no real evidence and certainly no official announcement. Is there any way for us to know if EW is doing really good?
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Dear enlightened members of the XCOM thread, I've been playing XCOM:EW on Classic Ironman for a while now, but unfortunately I have reached the point where the game is just far too easy. So, naturally, I made the jump to Impossible difficulty. And man is that poo poo brutal. Lost 1 man in the first mission, second mission was an UFO. Lost another one. I now have a Sniper, an Assault and a Support. NO Heavies yet and I have a terrible feeling about this. What are your recommendations for a newbie trying Impossible for the first time? Good news is that the game is tense again! Bad news is that I am probably exhaling too hard when a Sectoid misses a shot against one of my soldiers hunking down at full cover.
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Rynoto posted:You could always try the Implassic Mod. It has the same amount of enemies as Impossible with the difficulty modifiers of Classic. I am KINDA feeling excited about having my anus completely destroyed by the game again, though.
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Autsj posted:Hah, sectoids have 75 aim on impossible, so unless they're on a rooftop, hunkering down behind full cover is pretty much completely safe (1% to hit I think). That's great to know, thanks! quote:-Run it with Absolutely Critical and possibly with Not Created Equal. Impossible for me, I'm already running with no Second Wave options ticked... quote:-Don't sat rush, do 1 in the first month and push an uplink and 3 more during the second, just pay close attention to which countries you can afford to lose. Plan to get a mech at the start of the second month then ignore meld for the most part (you just need 1 canister for that), and go for lasers. Solid advice, thank you. I'll do that. quote:-Heavies are your biggest friend, they're so good in fact you could consider early alien materials for vests to protect them (+2 hp matters a lot on impossible). I don't have any, and yep, my worries are confirmed then. quote:-My preferred techpath is Alien materials > Meld > Fragments > Lasers - You could consider Experimental warfare before the lasers depending on how many scientists you have. You can also cut the Materials if you don't like vests, but I've found 8 days extra to Lasers compared to heavies surviving a LPR shot/PP Crit to be more than a fair trade. Uh oh, already went for Weapon Fragments! I have a bad feeling about this. quote:-Savescum a bit during your first game, especially make a save before heading out to a mission, some abduction maps are near certain death without a good plan and some luck. Being able to go back and redo the mission on a different map helps a lot to alleviate some frustrations of restarting over and over. You should still expect it to take a few restarts to get going past the first month or 2 though. Holy poo poo, I should prepare for the worst then. I'm playing Ironman! quote:-Once you hit month 3-4 and lasers become available the game eases up a lot, so plan around breaking those first 2-3. *Crossing fingers*. Well, team... get ready to die, because here we go.
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Last weekend I learned that wiping at your first Abduction mission on Ironman Impossible practically guarantees that your game is doomed to become an experience of pure torture, depression and hopelessness before the inevitable, crushing defeat. I have also learned that you have no idea just how much the Aliens hate your loving guts and want to absolutely rape you until you've played Impossible. It's quite a big jump in difficulty from Classic, and this is from a person that was finding Classic to be quite easy. Lastly, I'd love middle-ground in difficulty, one that is exactly this: Impossible level Tactical, Classic level Geoscape. Everyone freaking out so quickly is pretty brutal and frankly kinda silly too.
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I have now given up on Impossible Ironman and will play Classic Ironman again. SIGH.
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A friend of mine waited until he had Titan and all plasma technology before he assaulted the alien base. He also has 2 MECs. I had advised him not to do that, because the base defense would be very hard. He did it anyway. I want to know if I can expect to laugh a lot at his expense or if he'll have an easy time with his base defense. He plays on Classic.
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dogstile posted:It won't be that hard if he's equipped for it. His base rookies will be useless though. Dammit. Not Sectopod + Ethereal rush?
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ulmont posted:Correct. When I waited that long I think I only saw the one Sectopod on base defense. :-(((((((
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Matrim posted:On class ironman I saw two sectopods spawn and finally an ethereal with three sectoid commanders. It would have been pretty brutal if I didn't just camp on the starting balcony near the air spawn on overwatch with all of my dudes the whole time. I also had an assault running and gunning down all of the early sectoid commanders, so it was pretty simple overall. There's still hope, then. I talked to him during lunch and he has just completed the Alien Base. It's currently December in his playthrough and he's already facing Sectopods.
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Tyrone Biggums posted:Man, that cutscene you get after failing Ashes and Temples is depressing What? Is there a special cutscene? Or is it the standard Game Over cutscene?
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Lunethex posted:Everybody dies, but you only see Bradford. Shen, Vahlen and the rest of the base aren't shown. Wow, that's seriously depressing. Thanks for the link!
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runchild posted:Is anyone else slightly reluctant to gene mod their soldiers simply because the outfit for mutants is so lame? Every class looks the same afterwards, and changing armor barely makes any difference. Suddenly my badass soldier in sci-fi power armor is just a dude with no sleeves and a shiny breastplate, just like everyone else who I forced to grow a second heart. Holy poo poo YES. I am not slightly reluctant, I actually consider it to be a very difficult choice, to have my soldiers look lame for the rest of the game or not. In contrast, MECs are incredibly badass and very, very useful too. In my current game I am so far skipping genemods altogether.
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nnnotime posted:I found some info on future XCOM: this weekend I was reading a Credit Suisse Equity Research report on Take Two Interactive (as TTWO is a publicly traded company) and the title release estimates shows an XCOM sequel lined up for completion in the July thru September period of 2015, which probably means available for sale by the 2015 year-end. Wow, that's pretty awesome news, actually. Do you have maybe a link or a picture? Not doubting at all, just curious how it's written and stuff.
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StashAugustine posted:I'm pretty sure Solomon said that he doesn't want to do TFTD because he prefers the terror of 'there are aliens in my backyard and they're shooting up the 7-11 down the road' to the more otherworldy terror of the ocean. But I wouldn't be surprised if a sequel of some stripe comes out. By the way, Firaxis has tweeted that a new AAA game will be announced tomorrow, at PAX East: http://twitter.com/XCOM/status/454651343257350144
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Dongsturm posted:I hope they don't blindly follow the original series, and set it somewhere new, perhaps underground. The earth is hollow and at the centre is an immense alien base, and humans have been living on it, completely oblivious, for millennia. Let's not forget what Jake Solomon tweeted some time ago: "I'm going to steal a shitload of stuff from that movie. #Elysium" So I'm guessing we will be seeing: 1) A scorched Earth for the sequel; AND/OR 2) Space battles, maybe a space base etc. Which would be super cool, actually. We didn't get to see a Cydonia equivalent in this new game, it would be cool to have battles in some alien environments too. That alien garden in the original game's alien bases was always kind of terrifying to me.
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